Academic Internship

2018/2019

Prerequisite/Recommended prerequisite for
participation in the module

The student must have knowledge, skills and competencies within the
urban design and engineering field corresponding to the completion
of the MSc01 and MSc02 Urban Design Engineering education or
similar.

Content, progress and pedagogy of the
module

The objective of this module is to give the students an
opportunity to use and test the skills they have acquired during
the 1st and 2nd semesters by participating in
projects developed in a company setting. The testing of the urban
design engineering skills is attained not only through gaining
practical experience, but also through the choice of a focus area
for academic reflection and the subsequent investigation and
illumination of this. The choice of a focus area should be related
to urban design engineering skills attained in the first part of
the Master program.

Students who complete the module:

Learning objectives

Knowledge

Must have practical, technical, conceptual and professional
knowledge of relevance to urban design practice

Must have knowledge of the analytical methods utilised in urban
design practice

Must be aware of the practice of urban design as a practice
containing technical, design based and societal factors

Skills

Must be able to engage professionally in the environment within
which the urban design assignment takes place

Must be able to identify a relevant and specific technical
focus for subsequent investigation and reflection

Must be able to utilise analytical and investigative techniques
in the development of urban design proposals

Must be able to work both independently and in a team setting
in project development

Competences

Must be able to describe specific problems relating to urban
design engineering and find technical and design based strategies
for illuminating them

Must be able to participate in the solving of urban design
engineering problems

Must be able to make academic reflections on an identified
technical and design focus area relating to urban design
engineering and implement previously attained knowledge to qualify
it and set it into perspective

Type of instruction

See general description of the types of instruction described in
the introduction to Chapter 3.